Kane attacked WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan

BALTIMORE – Out of the honeymoon, into the fire: Daniel Bryan’s time off the grid with Brie Bella came to an unceremonious end when an old friend gave him a brutal, belated gift that surely wasn’t on the registry. Bryan’s former fellow Tag Team Champion Kane proved to be the walking “something old” when the demon reared his head during the Champion of Champions’ homecoming.

Clad in his signature red mask (“something new”), Kane administered something borrowed – his brother’s Tombstone Piledriver, three times over – that sent Bryan to a local medical center with a severe stinger, which caused a burning sensation down his neck and arms.

Despite Stephanie McMahon's unheeded commands for Kane to stop, the attack leaving the WWE Universe feeling collectively blue … though in a few weeks’ time, it’ll be Bryan who sees red when, per Stephanie's decree, he defends his title against The Devil's Favorite Demon in East Rutherford.